1421: The Year China Discovered America

On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus.

Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas - offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus.

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China - then the world's most technologically advanced civilization - provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of Western civilization today.

Meet Me in Atlantis: My Quest to Find the 2,000-Year-Old Sunken City

A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind.

Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds

Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds is the most up-to-date and comprehensive investigation of history's infamous sunken city. Nowhere else will you find a more dramatic and convincing presentation of the evidence for its archaeological reality.

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues

Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.

The Lost Civilization Enigma: A New Inquiry into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History

Are history books giving us the whole story? Or is civilization far more complex and for older than we have been taught? Our school textbooks barely mention the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, yet the latest archaeological findings at sites such as Jericho, and most recently, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, have been dated to 10,000 BC. Civilization goes back at least another 10,000 years, if we are willing to believe what our ancestors themselves claimed.

The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies

In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous premise - that everything we've been taught about our world's past is corrupted, and that the stories put forward by the various cults and mystery schools throughout history are true - Booth produces nothing short of an alternate history of the past 3,000 years.

Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

For more than 40 years, the US government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the navy, air force, and army - and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians.

Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as "the Sages", "the Magicians", "the Shining Ones", and "the Mystery Teachers of Heaven".

Bloodline of the Gods: Unravel the Mystery in the Human Blood Type to Reveal the Aliens Among Us

Are significant numbers of humanity the product of an ancient and advanced alien civilization? Have we, across the millennia, been periodically modified and refined as a species? In short, has our genetic make-up been manipulated by otherworldly beings that view human civilization as one big lab experiment? These are controversial and thought-provoking questions. They are also questions that demand answers, answers that may very well be found by examining those people whose blood type is Rh negative.

The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government---The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about American power.

Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history," all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers.

The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would eventually rescind it and made every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented an elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture, and assassination in Vietnam.

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.

The Toxin Solution: How Hidden Poisons in the Air, Water, Food, and Products We Use Are Destroying Our Health - and What We Can Do to Fix It

Dr. Joe Pizzorno is convinced that lifelong good health rests on two key determinants: your exposure to toxins and your ability to process them in your body. While lifestyle, diet, and genetics all play major roles in well-being, many symptoms of declining health and chronic disease are rooted in toxic overload - our exposure to a barrage of chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies, and pollution that are the byproducts of modern life.

Entangled

Graham Hancock has spent decades researching and writing some of the most ambitious and successful nonfiction investigations into ancient civilizations and wisdom. Entangled uses all of Hancock's skills and knowledge to propel a fantasy adventure like nothing else preceding it. This is a time-slip novel, alternating between present-day California, Brazil, and prehistoric Spain, with two teenage female protagonists who must come together to avert an incredibly bloodthirsty takeover of the human race.

Raising Atlantis

A secret U.S. military dig has uncovered ancient ruins two miles beneath the ice of Antarctica and activated the ultimate weapon. Now rogue American archaeologist Conrad Yeats and beautiful Vatican linguist Serena Serghetti must team up to unlock the secret origins of human civilization before a global cataclysm ends it.

Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records Audio Book

The best-selling Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records is read in its entirety by voice-talent David Hartley Margolin. The Akashic Records, also known as the Book of Life, are the storehouse of all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth, containing every word, deed, feeling, thought, and intent that ever occurred. Learn how you can tap into your records - your past lives, your present experiences, and your future - to create the life you desire now.

The Secrets of Enoch Also Known as the Second Book of Enoch: Christian Apocrypha Series

The content of this piece covers Enoch's journey through the multiple heavens, meeting the angels Gabriel and Michael, Enoch instructing Methuselah and his other sons on moral and ethical lessons, which he had written out in 366 books and which he eventually passes on to Methuselah and his other sons, so that his teachings wouldn't be lost and finally, Enoch's eventual assumption into heaven. This is essentially the sequel to the fabled Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch: From the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament

Why is The Book of Enoch so important to anyone interested in Biblical history? The answer is simple: It is directly quoted in the New Testament by Jude (vv.14-15). Themes of the book referenced in 2 Peter 2:1. Jesus also used content from The Book of Enoch in many of his sermons in Matthew and Luke. In this text, you will hear the word of God through this amazing document. We will take this amazing journey together and learn why this text is not an official book of the Bible.

Iberia

Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener's enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know.

Publisher's Summary

In 1500 B.C. a supervolcano beneath the Greek island of Santorini exploded in a near-apocalyptic eruption. Buried beneath the rubble and waves was the world’s most remarkable lost civilization....

New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atlantis” was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped from the earth.

For three millennia, the legend of Atlantis has gripped the imaginations of explorers, philosophers, occultists, treasure hunters, historians, and archaeologists. Until now, it has remained shrouded in myth. Yet, like ancient Troy, is it possible that this fabled city actually existed? If so, what happened to it and what are its secrets? The fascinating reality of Atlantis’s epic glory and destruction are uncovered, finally, in these pages in thrilling detail by the iconoclastic historian Gavin Menzies - father of some of “the most revolutionary ideas in the history of history” (New York Times).

Meticulously analyzing exciting new geologic research, recently unearthed archaeological artifacts, and cutting-edge DNA evidence, Menzies has made a jaw-dropping discovery: Atlantis truly did exist, and was part of the incredibly advanced Minoan civilization that extended from its Mediterranean base to England, India, and even America. In The Lost Empire of Atlantis, he constructs a vivid portrait of this legendary civilization and shares his remarkable findings.

As riveting as an Indiana Jones adventure, The Lost Empire of Atlantis is a revolutionary work of popular history that will forever change our understanding of the past.

Would you consider the audio edition of The Lost Empire of Atlantis to be better than the print version?

Having not read the print of this, but read the print of 1421, I would say that listening to this book was even better than reading that one. Something about the way Menzies weaves together details, combined with the excellent voice of his reader, makes it almost like sitting and listening to a sailor tell tales of his time on the seas. Perhaps because his reader is also British, it almost feels as though the author is reading the book himself, to the point that it's more like he's telling you the story than writing it for someone else to read.

What did you like best about this story?

I love the way Menzies crafted this book almost like a novel. It has an attention point (his trip to Athens and the short trip to Crete), a constant foreshadowing of something surprising to come, and then a climax that would hardly be believable if it were actually in a novel. Truly, Menzies knows how to make history come to life in ways I have rarely seen before from novelists, let alone historians. As a second "best" element, I also appreciated how personal the tale was. He injects himself so fully into the story, and he connects parts of his own life to it in a way the echoes Tolkien's sidebar stories in the Lord of the Rings. One minute I'm reading about this ancient people and their imported hippo teeth, and the next he's pointing out why that matters to him because of a drunken excursion to hunt hippos one night. That element brought 1421 to life for me, and it definitely came through in this book.

Which character – as performed by Gildart Jackson – was your favorite?

As there aren't really "characters" so much in a historical novel, this question might ordinarily seem not to apply. Still, because he is British and reading for Menzies, it almost feels at times as though he is reflecting Menzies himself - he is portraying the character of the author reading his book. Jackson does not read it in a monotone, as though he was simply reporting what is on the page, but effects enough emotion and tone that it really feels like a story. Having listened to other non-fiction audiobooks before, I can say that Jackson is quite good at his craft and far superior to some who do simply seem to read blandly with little real connection to the work itself.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The title makes an excellent tagline, quite frankly. Menzies does a great job of catching the eye with his titles. I say that because his first book did just that to me some years ago as I was just wandering through a bookstore looking for something to read. 1421, The Year China Discovered America, certainly jumped off the shelf for me. In this case, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, History's Greatest Mystery Revealed, similarly accomplishes that tagline element. I had been considering this book for some time, but I couldn't find time to read it, so I was very greatful to find it on Audible.

Any additional comments?

To anyone who has ever felt history is boring, dry, and lifeless, I highly recommend the work of Gavin Menzies. In a world where so few people read, and even fewer read non-fiction, Menzies and David McCollough prove that history can be better than movies, television, and even novels when crafted together eloquently. David McCollough has been one of my favorite storytellers, and I have often told friends that he could read a phone book to someone and sound interesting. I never expected to find anyone equal to his oral talent as a historian. Menzies is definitely the first person I have ever placed on his level, and his choice of reader may have greatly helped that. I wish he, like McCollough, might read his own work just once - if only an introduction or an epilogue - to give me a chance to truly compare these two great writers of history. For now, I will at least say Menzies knows how to write an incredible story filled with facts, references, speculations, and intrigue that leave readers and listeners begging for more.

wonderful..interesting. ..lots of supporting evidence. a great listen! narrator was phenomenal! I dont want to spoil it but by the end the author had me convinced he was right for the most part. although I still subscribe to the thought that the technology and know how they acquired was brought from another planet as nd that they mixed with the people of earth. he never broached that but stuck with facts he could substantiate only. no conjecture.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to connect the dots. Someone not inculcated in establishment thinking and dogma. Menzies is our man...all ye truth seekers and independent thinkers. His conclusions, based on fact, narrated through a listenable yarn will simply BLOW YOUR MIND!!

Where does The Lost Empire of Atlantis rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is a recent favorite of my brother's. He is interested in archeology, ancient history and early travels of humans. People got much further around the world, much earlier that we've known - until recent discoveries of artifacts combined with genetic research have uncovered the paths of early travelers. Fascinating!

What did you like best about this story?

The way the recent discoveries have been combined and explained in the context of known history, as my brother discussed his thoughts about the book, makes me want to know more.

What does Gildart Jackson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

My brother has difficulty reading for any long periods of time. Having this book available in audible form, read by a good narrator, gives my brother access to a topic that he enjoys.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The lost history of an advanced civilization - an epic and revealing untold story

Any additional comments?

Thank you for audible.com My brother is a bright and inquisitive man who would not be able to access the science and history books he enjoys so much without you!

The internet, and prior to that, international newspapers and magazines, and books make archaeological and scientific findings accessible to anyone interested in a timely fashion.

Now, as people live longer, they can spend their time wholly devoted to mastering a career and then turn their attention to other matters of interest. Example, Christopher Dunn took his experience and knowledge of machining and recognized signs of high technology used on megaliths - where we are told simple tools shaped huge rocks.

Gavin Menzies took his expertise in navigation, knowledge of astronomy, ocean cycles, and his many travels and used that as a foundation to connect-the-dots and see how copper and tin used to make bronze, for the Bronze Age was moved about. His knowledge of ships made what would simply be a beautiful painting or fresco have deeper meaning.

The narrator did an excellent job with this book, and because the book was written both as an exploration of history, archaeological finds, scientific discoveries, astronomical knowledge, and told threaded through a narrative of travel and discovery, this book captures and holds interest the way a mystery being solved does.

I think the term "Atlantis" may be used by New Age believers who have done past life regressions and channeling in a broader sense - covering a much broader expanse of time and I still remain open to those ideas. Gavin Menzies uses "Atlantis" in the more practical sense - with no New Agey goo stuck to it. His Atlantis is the Minoans and in no way does Gavin Menzies mix his Minoans with New Age Atlantis of crystals and mind power, etc. I think both versions are possible if considering that with a broad expanse of time different peoples will rise and fall in the same area, and geology change too.

Gavin Menzies does make some excellent investigations into the description of Atlantis itself and ties it into a physical area with great skill.

It's wonderful that history can be made interesting and when a person travels and sees and investigates with applied personal knowledge some very interesting clues can be brought together.

Fascinating explanation of both Plato's writings on Atlantis and of recent discoveries in archaeology and genetics to support the hypothesis that the Minowans are the civilization referred to be Plato and that their commerce and seagoing knowledge extended to Egypt and the Americas four thousand years ago !

not really my style in trying to uncover / relate the facts regarding a supposedly technologically advanced society (essential conclusion: "atlantians were minoans"). more of a travel memoir about meandering about the mediterranean, although informative in certain aspects...<br/><br/>